Primitive Archer
Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: adb on September 20, 2013, 01:43:14 pm
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Howdy all. I'm looking for a clean osage stave. 64" long would do it. 2" wide. I'm looking to make a 62" recurve. I have oodles to trade... stone heads, sinew, rawhide, finished arrows, cedar shafts, wood lams, backing strips... think something up, I probably have it.
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Send me your email. I have some clean osage I will send ya some pics. Do you have any 60-70lb spines?
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PM sent. Thanks.
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Nothing yet. :( Doesn't somebody have an osage stave for a bowyer who lives in a bow wood desert?
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billets ok? My cleanest osage is in billet form.
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Yes... billets would work.
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adb, let me take a couple pics in the morning. If I don't have what you're looking for I'll get in touch with my bestest supplier over east of here on the Missouri River area. He does have a nice set of billets that I know of for sure ( I was thinking of trying to purchase them and more because I have a some urac that needs to be used up in a very short time).
I have a couple three long enough but not as wide as you're looking for.
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Here's my best billets at the moment:
They are seasoned and ready to work.
The top one in the pic is actually a half that needs split to make sisters, should be plenty of wood there. The other two below are sisters, a touch of character that can easily be heated out. They do have a bit of crown. They are all about 38" long.
(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd374/k-hat/osagesisters.jpg) (http://s1216.photobucket.com/user/k-hat/media/osagesisters.jpg.html)
(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd374/k-hat/osagesisters2.jpg) (http://s1216.photobucket.com/user/k-hat/media/osagesisters2.jpg.html)
This is one end of the top one. There is a pin knot right there where i cut it, but it's not going to affect anything, probly the tip and and will be cut off.
(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd374/k-hat/osageend.jpg) (http://s1216.photobucket.com/user/k-hat/media/osageend.jpg.html)
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Pearl Drums to the rescue! Thanks, Chris! A fine looking stick of yeller wood is on the way towards me.
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Nothing yet. :( Doesn't somebody have an osage stave for a bowyer who lives in a bow wood desert?
I would of hooked you up, but I haven't been able to cut a thing this year, due to vehicle problems.
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I'm open to osage staves anytime. If you cut some and want to unload any, think of me! None where I live, or much in the way of bow wood I can cut myself. :(
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Pearlie's the man!
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Pearlie's the man!
Yes he is!